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President Obama's proposal to spend $100 million next year mapping the human brain, as part of a larger multi-year project, is already drawing firing from critics of government spending. But if there were ever a clear payoff from government spending, it's spending for science. Consider a the

With comments straight out of President Reagan's "welfare queens" playbook, Paul Ryan is attempting to justify his proposed budgets cuts to various programs that help the poor, claiming the safety net "provides a powerful disincentive to get ahead." Never mind that since the 1996 Personal

It's a tradition at this point: At least once a year, Google incurs the ire of (primarily) American conservatives because of a doodle (or sometimes even the absence of a doodle!) on its homepage. In 2006, the multibillion-dollar, multinational corporation chose not to mark Memorial Day, which The

The Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2013 would peg the minimum hourly pay for tipped workers to 70% of the standard, federal rate over the next three years. Supporters like Restaurant Opportunities Centers United believe few parts of the workforce stand to gain as much from the success of such legislation

The indictment last week of 35 teachers and administrators in Atlanta for manipulating test scores is just the latest chapter in that city's long festering "teacher cheating" scandal. In turn, Atlanta is just one of many cities where evidence has surfaced that educators fudged testing data. Perhaps

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities released a report recently with the self-concluding title that Recent Deep State Higher Education Cuts May Harm Students and the Economy for Years to Come.

With comments straight out of President Reagan's "welfare queens" playbook, Paul Ryan is attempting to justify his proposed budgets cuts to various programs that help the poor, claiming the safety net "provides a powerful disincentive to get ahead." Never mind that since the 1996 Personal

I recently published an article in response to a study of high-frequency trading (“HFT”) by Professor Charles M. Jones of Columbia Business School and an opinion piece he published simultaneously in Politico.

The news broke last night: a deal to bring paid sick days to a vote in the New York City Council has been reached.

More and more Americans are spending their golden years racking up debt—a trend that if left unchecked could derail entitlement reform and alter the traditional pattern of wealth being transferred from older to younger generations. For the past several decades, millions of senior citizens have been